DXY Index Continues Push High On Back Of EUR/USD Weakness

The US Dollar (via the DXY Index) continues to nudge higher on the first full trading day of the week, with traders continuing to downplay the impact of the US government shutdown on the economy (“no news is good news”), even as the shutdown drags into day 32. But with the US-China trade negotiations ongoing, geopolitics beginning to rear its head again, Brexit reaching a boiling point, and political instability slowing creeping across Europe, the US Dollar is simply enjoying its place as ‘the least worst option’.

THE SHAPE OF BREXIT

UK Prime Minister Theresa May has presented her ‘Brexit Plan B’ to parliament and reactions have been tepid at best. It seems that the prime minister’s renewed effort to get her deal through the House of Commons differs little than her first attempt, and by judging from the reaction of parliamentarians, it seems doubtful that ‘Plan B’ will pass muster either if a vote is held by the January 29 deadline. Reports over the weekend indicated that UK PM May might attempt to renegotiate the Good Friday Agreement, a politically fraught endeavor that would undoubtedly add a new matrix of complexity to an already overbearing Brexit problem.

At this point, if a no deal, ‘hard Brexit’ is to be avoided, it would appear that an extension beyond the March 29, 2019 deadline may be necessary. However, with the European parliamentary elections due up in July, it’s doubtful any extension to the Brexit deadline would go beyond there. Late on Monday, cross-party talks produced a bill designed to thwart a no-deal, ‘hard Brexit’ scenario by forcing PM May to postpone Brexit if no deal were reached by February 26.

EUROZONE DATA CONTINUES TO SOUR; ECB ON THURSDAY

Among the only important economic data due out on Tuesday, the January German ZEW Survey proved disappointing, with the Current Situation coming in at +27.6 versus +43.3 expected. The weakest reading in four years confirms the deterioration seen in proximal growth trackers like the PMI surveys. While a recession isn’t in the cards yet, evidence is starting to build that Germany, alongside the rest of the Eurozone, is seeing growth prospects cool off.

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